Recent Updates
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Court grants reprieve to Alabama death-row inmate
Lawyer Blogs 10/25/2007[##_1L|1148132786.jpg|width="120" height="88" alt=""|_##]A U.S. court granted a stay of execution to a convicted killer set to be put to death in Alabama on Thursday, the latest such move since the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to let...
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Court Denies Ex-Gov. Ryan a New Hearing
Lawyer Blogs 10/25/2007[##_1L|1030025024.jpg|width="120" height="93" alt=""|_##]A federal appeals court refused Thursday to grant former Gov. George Ryan a fresh hearing on his racketeering and fraud conviction. "We agree that the evidence of the defendant's guilt was over...
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Man who sold dogs to Vick pleads guilty
Lawyer Blogs 10/25/2007A man who sold Michael Vick two pitbulls for his dogfighting operation pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court in Richmond to the same charges for which the Falcons quarterback and three co-defendants are awaiting sentencing.Oscar Allen, of William...
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Blackwater accused of tax evasion
Lawyer Blogs 10/23/2007[##_1L|1140400383.jpg|width="130" height="130" alt=""|_##]Blackwater USA, the security company that has come under intense scrutiny on Capitol Hill after a September 16 incident in which it allegedly opened fire on Iraqi civilians and killed 17, was ...
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Ford Sued Over Cruise Control Switch
Lawyer Blogs 10/22/2007A Virginia man whose pickup truck caught fire last year is suing Ford Motor Co. for damages over a faulty cruise control switch that has led to engine fires and millions of recalled vehicles.Gary Medrano, of Woodbridge, Va., filed the lawsuit on Mond...
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Capital Punishment at Crossroads in US
Lawyer Blogs 10/22/2007[##_1L|1127448919.jpg|width="180" height="135" alt=""|_##]Stop executions for a while and perhaps they can be stopped forever. That calculation has been part of the strategy of capital punishment opponents for decades. The Supreme Court-inspired slow...
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Store bookkeeper pleads not guilty
Lawyer Blogs 10/22/2007[##_1L|1040827343.jpg|width="120" height="88" alt=""|_##]Rebecca McGilp, the Yarmouth bookkeeper accused of embezzling more than $300,000 from a health food store, pleaded not guilty this morning at Cumberland County Superior Court. At the arraignmen...
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McDonald faces court on trespassing charge
Lawyer Blogs 10/20/2007A senior official from the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union has appeared in the Perth Magistrates court to face a charge of trespass.It is alleged the assistant secretary of the union, Joe McDonald, entered the Lakeside Shopping Centre...
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'Lingerer' Asks NYC Court to Drop Case
Lawyer Blogs 10/19/2007[##_1L|1007959721.jpg|width="130" height="130" alt=""|_##]Standing around to chat on a busy Manhattan street can certainly create an inconvenience for other pedestrians. But is it illegal? A man arrested after a confab with friends in Times Square ha...
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Court Review Slows Number of Executions
Lawyer Blogs 10/18/2007[##_1L|1213042615.jpg|width="131" height="91" alt=""|_##]The Supreme Court's decision to review the constitutionality of lethal injection procedures has slowed the annual number of executions to the lowest level in a decade amid renewed concerns abou...
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Supreme Court Pursues Microsoft, Best Buy Case
Lawyer Blogs 10/17/2007[##_1L|1382086187.jpg|width="131" height="91" alt=""|_##]The Supreme Court Monday rejected an appeal in the racketeering case against Microsoft and Best Buy that alleges consumers had MSN accounts activated and were charged for them without their kno...
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House Democrats split on Armenian 'genocide' bill
Lawyer Blogs 10/17/2007[##_1L|1367073907.jpg|width="140" height="135" alt=""|_##]A House vote on whether to label as genocide the killings of 1.5 million Armenians by what is now Turkey -- a resolution that deeply offended that key U.S. ally -- could be delayed as Democrat...